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Aim - to study direction and magnitude of associations between indices of comfort and aesthetics of living environment and selected population characteristics as well as indicators of the somatotype, psychological and social status of a person. Methods. An expert assessment of the aesthetic nature of the environment was carried out and the comfort of the human environment in 13 regions using data from the National Atlas of Russia. A list of indicators of the social status of the population in the same regions was selected using the data form the Federal State Statistics Service. Standard indicators of the somatotype, psychoemotional state, level of prosociality and severity of various vectors of behavioral and social activity in 1 471 people, men and women, aged 18-28, permanently living in the selected regions, were assessed. Results. According to the majority of indicators of the psychological and social status of the population, there is a unidirectional dependence of their manifestation on the comfort and aesthetics of the environment. At the same time, we observed inverse association between economic activity (p = 0.051), behavioral activity (p = 0.019) and prosocial behavior (p = 0.025) and the aesthetic characteristics of the living environment. Among the indicators of social status, significant associations were found between with the comfort of the habitat and population density (p = 0.001), migration attractiveness of the region (p = 0.002), average age (p = 0.025), and quality of life (p = 0.032). Statistically significant inverse relationship was observed between divorce rate and comfort of the environment (p = 0.021). Conclusions. We observed several significant associations between indicators of comfort and aesthetics of the environment and phenotypic and social status of individuals. Further research is needed to corroborate our findings in other regions.